Been listening to a history series about histories greatest military strategist thinkers. Thought I'd run the list of people discussed in the series by /his/ for opinions. They are:
Thucydides
Sun Tzu
Machiavelli
Napoleon
Jomini
Clausewitz
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Julian Corbett
Mao Tse-tung
The rest of the series doesn't focus on individuals but generals like counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, nuclear strategy and air power etc.
>>996789
>Mao Tse-tung.
The Guerilla War consists of ideas lifted from the true military brains of the CCP, Peng Dehuai and Zhu De.
Mao was a politician, not a military man.
>>996818
Actually one of the big things he likes to talk about in the series is about relation between politics and military and political leaders with military leaders.
>>996789
Napoleon. Whatever you think the answer is always Napoleon.
>>996789
I don't know half those people.
Wat series
No Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, one of the forefathers of modern combined arms?
>>1000938
It's part of The Great Courses series: Masters of War: History's Greatest Strategic Thinkers by Professor Andrew Wilson of the US Naval War College.
>>1001201
He may be there, but not a named episode. For example the episode on counter insurgency talks a lot about Roger Trinquier and the Algerian War as its main case study or example of counterinsurgency strategy. And the nuclear strategy episode talks about many people from Sokolovsky to Brodie.
Although I don't recall him being mentioned yet. Maybe he's more tactics than strategy?
>Thucydides
>Mahan
>Corbett
>Mao
Field marshal Otto Model?
From what i've read he seems like a pretty good defensive general, maybe not on some of these guy's levels but pretty good.
> Thucydides
Literally what? He only mentions taking part in one battle, which he loses and is then exiled.
It's not even like his Histories focus on military strategy per-se.
>not discussing Hannibal pushing the Roman's shit in
>>1001201
Did he do any writing?
>>1001531
>marching your army through alps and killing much of them
>not attacking Rome when given an opportunity
How was his strategy good?
>>1001575
Because he was smart enough to realize that some of the smaller tribes, eg Etruscans, would come to mommy's aid.
Also the entire population of Rome would militarize.
It would have been a shit show
>>996789
Where is Temujin?
>>996789
Don't forget, Lettow-Vorbeck
Isoruku Yamamoto
Georgy Zhukov
Rommel
>>1001691
Genghis Khan
>>1001843
>memes
Please die
>>996789
no Khalid bin Waleed?
>>996789
This is a super autistic picture. Do people play with chess pieces like toys?
